I'm not going for Platinum certification, but I did make Find support an
optional feature of my product, set in a preferences screen. My program
deals with genealogy and, while using Find can be a powerful way of
searching the database, I did not think that someone who also uses his/her
Palm for PDA purposes would want to search through the information for
10,000 dead people when looking for a business memo that they wrote :-).
Doug Gordon
GHCS Software
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From: Stringer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 11:42 AM
To: PalmOS Entrepreneurs Forum; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Platinum question
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Right now I'm faced with two alternatives:
A) Implement a C language file scan that will work with Find,
and then provide a configuration option to allow users to
disable this, with a very strong recommendation that it always
be disabled! In other words, spend a lot of effort to add
a feature to meet Platinum requirements that will normally be
suppressed.
We'd also have to modify the C++ classes to leave information
to coordinate with the C language file scan. And this whole
exercise would be a validation nightmare.
B) Obtain an official exception for non-support of Find because of
(i) the C++ issue (not our fault!) and
(ii) the negative User effect of Find hitting these large databases.
Roger Stringer
Marietta Systems, Inc.
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